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Slet is a project for people to exercise together outdoors at sites of modern architecture lead by artists Felicity Croydon and Caroline Jupp. The Slet project takes its inspiration from Sokol, a physical education and cultural movement founded by Dr. Tyrs in 1862. A mass Sokol display is called a slet (Czech meaning ‘a flocking of birds’) and is performed by amateur gymnasts of all ages. |
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Sokol: The Czechoslovak National
Gymnastic Organisation F. A. Toufar Allen & Unwin 1941 |
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Sokol exercises in Tábor 1903
© Marie Sechtlová More images of Sokol members, slets and festivals can be found on the Sechtl-Vosecek photographic archive. |
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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts commissioned a series of slets for Norfolk residents and migrant workers. Slet for Foster took place outside Sir Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre building and Slet for Buckingham & Berry was performed on Cromer beach in front of a 1930s pavilion. Videos of the live slets and a library of OOP Sokol and keep-fit books were exhibited in the Link Gallery, SCVA, September - December 2008. Slet for Lubetkin was also performed in 2008 in a public park near Finsbury Health Centre, an influential modernist building designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton architecture practice and built in 1938. Future slets will take place at sites of modern architecture in 2009-10. Sign up to receive email/text alerts or visit Biblioblography for event listings. |
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| Pilot Slet: Exercise for Aalto Barbican Centre, London. March 2007 |
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